Inky

Get Jonathan Quick on the case......

Who would that be Will?

Great thread Nice one

Sounds like you will be best set to get in a subby climber to sort the plane, sure someone will be up for it, good luck with the operation by the way.

 

You gotta be careful what you post here at the weekend, spiking in trees that are to be retained gets us all soap boxed up.

Nice one, yeah I very nearly cut that bit out before posting but hey ho, lesson learned!! Reckon I might be better off re-posting just requesting a climber?

Cheers re. operation, had it yesterday and very much feeling it todaY!!

I did consider leaving that bit of info out of the post but I'm putting my hands up here! Wanted to give all the info.. I did write that in the wee hours through a veil of anaesthetics and codeine too if that saves me any grace.. Plus the marks really aren't visible and yes I used arb grade camo paint upon descent.

Nah we stopped cutting when the chipper broke one day and returned with fixed chipper. Cleared up all waste, cut the rest of the trees and left the plane until last thinking the 2nd half of the day would be ample time, but it was much harder than I anticipated.. Busy London road with a double width footpath to lower bits down onto but cyclists and pedestrians were harder to deal with than expected..

Is subbing the rest of the job out/hiring a more experienced climber such a ridiculous request?

Why would this be a joke? Classic forum ego responses.. I need someone else to finish a job and thought someone might be up for it.. Obviously up for paying decent money..

Hi there people..

Hoping to get some help/advice on finishing a job.

Put two days on a job in Roehampton in Wandsworth, London SW15.. Chipper ****** out on us on the morning of the 2nd day after smashing the 1st and making good progress before we stopped on the 2nd.. Reduced a lot of trees, and I mean a lot!! Biggest job I've taken on and we're quite a small outfit so far.

The 3rd day we happily smashed the progress again leaving the 2nd half of the day to reduce a large London plane.. This tree was a real mother... Beautiful but with a really tall sprawling crown with a lot of vertical/near vertical meaty stems.. I took in all of the immediate lateral growth, rigging good size sections down, stopping traffic on the busy road along the way..

Pretty hairy at points, and considering I've only been climbing properly for a couple of years I have no reservation in saying I felt a little out of my depth! I know I shouldn't have but I spiked my way up to get a good anchor point and stand my ground that if anyone said anything - I'd have said FU - you didn't have to climb the ******! Also it is so high up the spike marks are invisible amongst the dappled bark.

Found it quite difficult to get up to the outer reaches of the tall near vertical stems to reduce them and ultimately had to finish the day feeling a bit defeated by the tree - not a great feeling! I've come to really enjoy reducing trees and am generally very happy with my work but this really felt pretty hardcore..

Now I come to the crux of my post.. This was the last day I could work before going into hospital for an inguinal hernia repair (that was this morning) and this is putting me out for two months. The job needs finishing and I'm not quite sure what to do.. I could wait until I'm fully recovered and give it another day. However, I don't think that as a first job to get stuck back into is a great idea, and to get the job done to the standard I'd like to leave it at, I am thinking maybe it is better suited to a more experienced climber.

Basically I'm thinking about subbing the rest of the job out so it can be finished before spring growth. From what I gather London prices are very competitive and I'd be interested to see what firms would put in for it.. Or perhaps an EXPERIENCED freelance climber that would be up for the challenge?

Really hope to hear back from a few heads on this one..

Nice one..

Inky

Hi there..

Have had a search around the forum looking for some sort of resource with information on when to cut certain trees and why..

Need to learn this but don't know quite how to go about it!!

Any help would be muchly appreciated..

Cheers!